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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.3.33.pr

Sequestration by a Slave and the Master's Action

Passage 2438 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Labeo expresses the view that when a slave makes a deposit in sequestration with a third party, the master can bring an action for production and then claim the money by vindication, as a slave cannot impair the master's rights.

[LABEO libro sexto posteriorum a Iauoleno epitomatorum. ] §16.3.33.prSeruus tuus pecuniam cum Attio in sequestre deposuit apud Maeuium ea condicione, ut ea tibi redderetur, si tuam esse probasses, si minus, ut Attio redderetur.
[From the sixth book of Labeo's Posteriora epitomized by Javolenus.] Your slave, together with Attius, deposited money with Maevius in sequestration, under the condition that it should be returned to you if you proved it was yours, but if not, that it should be returned to Attius.
posse dixi cum eo, apud quem deposita esset, incerti agere, id est ad exhibendum, et exhibitam uindicare, quia seruus in deponendo tuum ius deterius facere non potuisset.
I said that (you) can bring an action for an uncertain claim, that is, for production, against the person with whom it was deposited, and claim the produced money by vindication, because the slave could not have made your right worse by making the deposit.

Notes

  1. §16.3.33.prposse dixi — The subject accusative of the infinitive posse is omitted, which is understood as te (you), referring to the master of the slave, continuing from Seruus tuus and tibi in the previous sentence. dixi expresses the legal opinion of Labeo.
  2. §16.3.33.princerti agere — The genitive incerti modifies agere (to bring an action), meaning 'to sue for an uncertain thing' (actio incerti). This is immediately clarified and specified by the phrase id est ad exhibendum (that is, for production).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.3.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.3.33.pr

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